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, 80* THE FLORIDA DISPATCH. ," FARMER AND FRUIT-GROWER. [OCTOBER 131892
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 STEPHEN POWERS, .- .- Editor:: L To Meet the Growers. I apple districts of New York, where he ered; strain this and add a peck of

! P. O. Address, Iavrtey.Fla. I Messrs. A. $. Mann and \V. R. I had been engaged in collecting ship.I salt dissolved in warm water; boil three

 Smith will meet the orange growersat irients for England. By the next train pounds of ground rice until it makesa

 CONTENTS. DeLand, Octobcr 19, 8 p. m., andat he left for Citra and other prominent thick paste; add this, also half a
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 unso-The Sailing Date; An Orange Hart;80 Palatka, October 20, at u a. m., to points, where he will solicit consign- pound of Spanish whiting and a poundof

t k The Life Atlantic In Florid Coast YB.! Pineapple The Gulf Coast Wine; Plant Royal- solicit consignments for the steamer J ments of oranges for the Ethelwold. dissolved glue. Stir all togetherand

 Palm Nurseries; -. 80- Ethelwold, elsewhere noticed. We bespeak for him the attentive hear- let it stand for several days, whenit
 Lemon Culture in Florida j Hart's Tardlff Orange .
 ; -805! > ing which befits a gentleman who evi- will be fit for use; it must be appliedhot.
 The Sailing Date.
) FARMER. AJCD TRUCKEE-Strawberry Culture No.5; dently 'means business and bears sat- ..
:r Chinese Cabbage; Harvesting Cowpeas; Cultlratlou For some reason, doubtless a wise "-
... 8CK isfactory credentials. I. E. Baird ..& Co., "The Paint
 for Moisture; - -
 Mr. E. L. Goodsell has .
> 807! i one, changedthe -
 Swine -
 LIVESTOCK-Fencing Against ; "
 The project now seems to lack no i Store, of Jacksonville, recommend a
 POCLTBT-Making a Living; 801 sailing date of the first orange I
 EDITORIAL-To.Meet the Growers; Government I element of completeness in formula slightly different from the '
 prepara-
 steamer to England. It is now
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r Whitewash; Edward A.Seccomb; -
" Work for October. ; -. .. .. .. .- KMMARKETS announced that the steamer Ethel- tion. If a cargo is pledged the steamer i above-half bushel unslacked lime,
 80aOUB I
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 quarter peck salt, half pound glue, one
 Yocx FOLKS The Spooks Steal Some of Mrs
 .Jones'Clothes; - .- .- 810 -h. pound Spanish whiting, half peck
 STATE NEWS-Items; -810
. OCR RURAL HOME-When She Carves; Canning ground rice.They claim that the
. Fruits When Fresh;The Value of Buttermilk; i whitewash is just as good without any .
 Curlew-How to Cook: The Bath;'Recipes; 811FTBEB
 PLAXTS-Fiber Industry Yucatan; 813MWCELLAXT I rice but with double the amount of
 -Organic and Mineral Manures;Clear N
 Potash as a Fruit Manure; Fruit Preservatives glue.An
 ; Modern Chinese In Their Homes; Ext'elIencf. old subscriber says i it is an excellent -
 ..of Salt; 813
 ALLIAKCK Stipendiaries;The College-Bred( Flunk; t plan to add a lump of fresh
 Jefferson on State Banks. ;The Culture of Oats.;811 lime occasionally while applying the .
t Nations as Faters; 813:)
 whitewash, in order to keep it boiling
 .
 Indian River oranges of fine qualityare hot. .
 i +m
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 bringing $6 per box at A. S. .4 r y Edward A. Seccomb.

 Stone's in New York. "r The announcement of the sudden
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P death of Edward A. Seccjomb; at his

 There are millions in the orange summer i esidepce,'Vashington, Conn.,

 industry, but some unfortunates on Thursday last, September 29th,
 I came as a great surprise and caused
 so injudiciously that they cannot 
 manage universal sorrow throughout the fruit
 get five cents out of it. '" trade of the country. He held an en-
 viable place in the affections of his

 The lower five wires that are re- many business friends, and his death

 quired to fence out the razorbacks .are will deprive the trade of one of the

 the last straw that breaks a good foremost as well as one of. the most
 respected of its members.
 many poor truckers' backs. 1,4 .
 K Deceased was born in Brookline,
 .
 0. Mass., in 1841. Aftejr receiving an
 A'lot of several thousand boxes of ordinary school education, came to

 fancy Rodi oranges were lately closed New York in 1860 and entered the

 out in New York, the whqle lot realiz employ Minturn & Partridge as a
 .. clerk. For a period of eight he
 years
 .
 ing iron $11.00 to $15.00 a box. '
 labored zealously in the interest of his
 PS fA employers, so much so that his serviceswere
 The company to run the Christo- rewarded, and in 1868 the firm

 pher line of steamers to ply between\ of T. R. Minturn, Brown & Co., was

 New York and Jacksonville, Fla has established, he being the company.
 leased the Line foot This business owing to the increase in
 Albany Day pier, I
 .
 01 Desbrosses street. the receipts of fruits from year to year,
 became more and more successful, and
 .
 I the retirement of Mr. Minturnin
 upon
 Messrs. Barrnttt Bros. of
 Chicago,
 1872 the firm name was changedto
 have relinquished the agency of the Brown & Seccomb, which it has

 Florida Fruit Exchange and will enter II held up to the present time.

 the lists in the orange trade of this Edward A. Seccomb was a man of
 State on their own account. EDWARD A SECCOMB systematic habits, and so thorough was

 wold will positively be dispatchedfrom will be cabled.for by October 22. She i the work laid out in all departments of

 Some peach shippers in the North Fernandina November 15, if a can certainly reach Fernandina in ten his business that the slightest trace of
 .
 either the of
 errors, on part employes
 mark their grades with sprigs of green cargo of 12,000 boxes is pledged by days, or by November 5, at the latest. or those doing business with them,

 leaves in the box. Three leaves laid October 22. Mr. Goodsell speaks of This will give ten days to collect and could be discovered at a glance. ; He

 on top indicate first grade; two leaves, limiting the shipping from interior load her cargo. A representative ofMr. was of scholarly attainments, of well
 Goodsell will be in Fernandinato bred and dignified bearing with
 yet
 second grade; one leaf,. common or points to October30, but we believe
 lowest quality. this to be a mistake and that he will advance the growers, if they wishit all, the persorification of a genial,
 whole-souled and upright man.
 pee not adhere to it. No grower wouldbe 75 cents a box. The shippers have As a member of the firm Mr. Sec-

 Messrs. Daetwyler & Ballbach, of willing to have his fruit fifteen dayson only to elect one of their number to go comb virtually had charge of the finan-

 Philadelphia, are handling a very fine the road. and dock before the to England as their agent to oversee cial branch of the business. His wise

 brand of Niagara grape juice, unfer- steamer sails. Where the communi- the sale of the fruit in England.Government judgment and keen foresight, no doubt
 mented. It is I < aided the house to continually
 pressed, packed and carryon
 cation from interior points to Fernan Whitewash.A .
 successful business. His
 advice
 so a -
 bottled by C. J. Balbridge; at Kendia, dina is tolerably direct we see no good correspondent requests us to re- was at all times sought for, especially -

 N. Y., and is meeting with very good reason why fruit might not be shipped publish the recipe for the Governmentor upon questions pertaining to

 sale, says the Fruit Trade Journal. for the Ethelwold as late as November White House whitewash. finance, and an idea of his fitness for
 I this
 or 10. The formula given by the Lighthouse trustworthy position may be
 '1 have used Salvation 5
 Oil for frosted formed when it is known that In the
 feet and backache,and found it to be the Mr. W. R. Smith, a representativeof Board of the Treasury Department is sales
 busy
 season daily amounting.to
 ,
 best remedy and pain killer on earth Mr. Goodsell called on October as follows Slack half bushel of good
 Mrs Maggie Nieder, Mt. Pleasant, West us : almost $100,000 would take place at
 moreland county, Pa, n, having come directly'from'the lime in boiling water, keeping it cov hIs establishment.
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